Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10
ADMISSION DAY.
Grand Celebration of California's Natal
Day by Her Native Sons.

icopyTig, 1857, by The California Associated PresS
NAPA, September 9th.-At IL A. NJ the thirty
seventh anniversary of Caiifornia's entrance
into the Union was heralded by salute of
thirty-seven guns.
Aids reported to Grand Marshal Randolph on
Third street at $50 where the procession formed,
and started near II o'clock.
The route of the procession embraced the
principal streets. The Native Sons and visitors
sweIled the population of Napa to-day to about
1900. The best of order aud harmony pre-
reception and celebration. At the pavilion ex-
ercises began at l O'clock The platform was
reserved for the officers and invited guests and
the Bear Flag Party.
Fifty-two young ladies drawn in carriages rep
resenting the different counties of the state
also representation of crossing the plains in
1919: The feature of the exhibition was the
drill by the FL Dorado drill corps at o'clock.
The afternoon was chiefly devoted to visiting by
the different parlors.
THE CELEBRATION A SUCCESS.
NAPA, September 9TH. M.-The Admission
Day celebration is now past excepting the
grand ball in the pavilion this evening. Not
one accident nor anything to mar the complete
enjoyment of the day occurred. The process
sion was about two miles long. and over 1000
Native Sons marched.
The surviving members of the original Gear
Flag party were cheered. They were harvey
Porterfield, T. ". Bradley. Vim. hafgrave C.
Griffin, Henry Fowler +. L Grigsby, William
Russell. William Balbridge and John York.
The visitors expressed great satisfaction with
the reception given them by the Napa people
The day was perfect, and the exercises at the
tent were Il credit 10 the Order. The Grafton by
Jackson Hatch was impressive, well delivered
and effective.
The open-air concert by the First Artillery
Band, of Sacramento, in the court yard at
tracted an immense crowd
Refreshments were distributed at head quar-
ter to all the Parlors lavishly. The Sacramento
Psriors exhibited II carload OF fruit at the Sac
ramento headquarters
IN SANTA ROSA
SANTA Rosa. September 9th.-Admission Day
was appropriately observed at Santa Rosa.
There was no demonstration, but all the public
offices, banks, etc. were closed and the Ameri-
can flag foated over many buildings. Many
Native Sons of this city went to Napa yesterday
TO celebrate there.
--AT SANTA Cruz.
SANTA CRUZ, September 9th.-Business of all
kinds was suspended to-day. The Pioneers
picnic at the Big Tree Grove was largely attend
ed. w. II Baxter delivered an grafton.
PARADE AT CHICO.
CHICO. September 9th.-Admission Day was
observed in Chico by a military parade aud tar
get shooting, etc. The banks were closed, but
business houses operated as usual.
THE CIR DIZZY STATUE UNVEILED.
STOCKTON, September 9th.-Admission Day
was obserbed here by the unyeiling of the statue
OF Gridley, the famous Sanitary Sack-OfFlour
man.
FIREWORKS AT Los ANGELES.
Los ANGELES, September 9th.-Admission Day
was generally observed The Native Sons went
to san Diego TO celebrate. There was a grand
display OF fireworks tonight here
SAN JOSE FoRGETs HER Booa.
san jose, September 9th.-Admission Day was
celebrated by almost total cessation of busi-
ness. There we're no formal exercises.
SAN FRANCISCO PIONEERS.
SAS FRANCISCO, September 9th.-Ihe day was
celebrated by the Society of California Pioneers
at Camp Taylor. The festivities consisted of
bull s-head breakfast at o'clock T. NJ and dur
ing the afternoon there was dancing in the Pa
yilion. The orator OF the day was Hon. Thomas
II. Laine, of San Jose, and the poet General G.
Douglas Beaverton.